Wall-safe or lock-box.



No. 7ll,326. Patented Oct. l4, l902.

H. C. LOWRIE.

WALL SAFE 0R LOCK BO X.

. (Application filed May 5, 1902.)

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UNTTnD STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

HARVEY C. LOYVRIE, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

WALL-SAFE OR LOCK-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,326, dated October14, 1902.

Application filed May 5,1902. Serial No. 105,936. (No modelfi To all1071,0711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY G. LoWRIE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado,have invented new and useful Improvements in VVall-Safes or Lock-Boxes,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a safe or lock-box designed to be'built into abrick or other wall; and it has for its object simple and effectivemeans for anchoring the safe and preventing its removal without alsoremoving a considerable portion of the surrounding wall.

Broadly stated, my invention consists in providing the safe withexterior lugs, which are located to the rear of the plane of the frontwall of the safe and adapted to cooperate with anchoring bars or rodsfor securing the safe to the Wall into which it is built, as will behereinafter explained.

To more particularly describe my invention, I will refer to theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of aportion of a brick wall which has been broken away for disclosing a safebuilt therein embodying my invention. Fig. 2 isa front View of the samewith the bricks composing the face of the wall removed, and Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section of the same on line 0000 of Fig. 2.

It is to be understood that safes embodying my invention may be made invarying sizes and shapes to suit particular uses or to adapt them to thewall into which they are to be built. The safe A illustrated in thedrawings is designed for a thirteen-inch brick wall B and is such as maybe built into the walls of apartment-house or hotel rooms for theindividual use of the occupants. Said safe is therefore about eightinches deep and occupies a space in the wall 13 equal to the thicknessof the face and filling of the wall, leaving a space at the rear for thebricks composing the rear of the wall which is unbroken by the safe. Thesafe is built into the wall with its front surface practically flushwith the face of the wall; but it is provided with a door-casing a,which projects therefrom to about the thickness of the usualwall-plastering b, so that the safe-door a may be flush with thefinished wall, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The top, bottom, two sides,and rear of the safe are each provided with a lug c, which is perforatedor bored, as at c,-for the reception of an anchoring rod or bar. Thelugs c on the top, bottom, and two sides of the safe are so located thatthey will occupy the dividing-line separating the bricks composing theface and filling or core of the Wall into which it is built. Theperforations 0 through the lugs on the top and bottom of the safe are ina slightly-different vertical plane from the perforations through thelugs on the sides of the safe, so that the anchoring rods or bars (Zpassing through the lugs on the top and bottom of the safe may pass therods cl, which pass through the lugs at the sides of the safe; but itwill be readily understood that the perforations through these lugs mayall be in the same vertical plane and that the bars or rods may beslightly bent to permit them to pass each other. The lug c at the rearof the safe is preferably centrally located and may be perforated orbored to receive the rod (1 horizontally or verti cally, as may bestsuit the form of the safe or the character of the wall into which it isto be h uilt.

. The rods cl d d are preferably out from round commercial bar iron orsteel, and they are sufficiently long to extend a considerable distancebeyond the walls of the safe in both directions, so that when properlybuilt into a Wall, as shown, the safe Will be anchored to a large areaof the surrounding masonry.

It is to be noted that by a proper location of the lugs with referenceto the front Wall of the safe the rods (1, d, and (1 will all occupyvertical joints in the Wall E and that no special skill or knowledgewill therefore be required to initially adjust the safe or properlyinclose it inthe Wall.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A wall-safe or lock-box provided withexterior lugs located in the rear of its front wall and adapted toembrace anchoring-rods, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A wall-safe or lock-box having lugs on its top, bottom and sides,said lugs being substantially in the same vertical plane and adapted toembrace anchoring rods or bars, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

3. A Wall-safe or lock-box provided with perforated exterior lugslocated to the rear of its front Wall for the reception ofanchoring-rods, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A wall-safe or lock-box having exterior lugs on its top, bottom andsides, said lugs being perforated or bored for the reception ofanchoring rods or bars, the perforations.

of a safe built therein, anchoring-rods occupying the joints between thebricks or stones com posing said Wall, said rods being of greater lengththan the walls of said safe, and means connecting said safe to saidrods, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7.- In combination with a wall of masonry,

a safe provided with exterior perforated lugs,

said safe being built in said Wall, and anchoring-rods passing throughthe perforations in said lugs and occupying the joints between thebricks or stones of said wall, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

HARVEY O. LOWRIE.

Witnesses:

AUGUSTINE L. CARROLL, ANTHONY SNEVE.

